"Colonel Colt" wrote in message
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> "Palindrome" wrote in message
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>> Colonel Colt wrote:
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>>>> Colonel Colt wrote:
>>>>> "Palindrome" wrote in message
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>>>>>> If you go abroad and break laws in a foreign country, you should
>>>>>> expect to suffer the consequences - whether they be imposed via that
>>>>>> country's legal system or your own.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Rubbish. If you get caught in the country where you committed the
>>>>> offence then of course you may be punished for it there. But not
>>>>> necessarily if you return here. In many muslim countries, it is a
>>>>> criminal offence for a man to have . with a man. Should a man that
>>>>> committed that offence but who managed to escape to the UK, be
>>>>> prosecuted for it in a British court, or extradicted back to the
>>>>> muslim country?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> "If you have that little respect for their laws - then don't go there.
>>>> Or go there with a Diplomatic Immunity and/or an army and/or as part of
>>>> an emergency relief effort under the auspices of an organisation that
>>>> has demanded that its staff will not be subject to local laws."
>>>>
>>> Do please stop evading the question. This is not question about the
>>> advisibleness of putting yourself in that position in the first place;
>>> the question is whether the British legal system should act as a proxy
>>> to enforce punishments against actions which are not offences in our
>>> legal system.
>>>
>>>> Yep, provided that the individual will get a fair trial, does not
>>>> impose cruel and inhuman punishments, etc then , ship them back.
>>>>
>>> Why should our legal system expend any time and money on extraditing
>>> someone for something that is not an offence in the UK?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Because this would be a *reciprocal* arrangement and their nationals
>> would not be able to come here, commit offences here and return home
>> without risk of trial or punishment.
>>
> You are living in cloud cuckoo land. The chances that the British state
> would imprison a gay man in the UK because he had . with a man in Saudi
> Arabia, or indeed extradite him to Saudi, is ZERO.
It isnt about what the State would do or not do, its about what they are
putting into law. If you dont intend to do something why creat a piece of
legislation that enables it?
Gaz
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